Garment-supporter



(No Model.)

B. A. DOTY. GARMENT SUPPORTER.

No. 429,208. Patented June 3, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

ELLIS A. DOTY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.- Q

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,208, dated June 3, 1890.

Application filed November 19, 1889- Serial No. 330,336. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELLIS A. DOTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Garment-Supporters; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact deseription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same,referen as being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a separate view of the buckle, showing the same open. Fig. 8 is a perspective view showing how the strap is shortened through the buckle. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing how the strap is lengthened through the buckle. Fig. 5 is a variation, in which the buckle is made of flat metal instead of wire.

It is the purpose of my invention to produce a garment-support-er, and more particularly adapted as a stocking-supporter, which may be conveniently attached to the corset and readily lengthened out or shortened up, as circumstances may require.

My invention consists, essentially, in a pcculiar buckle adapted to engage the corset, and through whieh'the sustaining strap or tape maybe lengthened or shortened, and having at the other end of the tape a clasp for engaging the stocking or garment.

In carrying out my invention, A represents a portion of a corset.

B represents a stocking.

0 represents myimproved buckle engaged with the corset.

D represents a clasp engaged with the stocking, and E represents the strap or tape which engages the stocking with the corset.

The clasp E consists of two jaws d, having at their extremity blocks (1', of rubber, corrugated on their opposing faces, and a sleeve (1 slides down over the arms and clamps the fabric of stocking between the two blocks of rubber. One end of the strap E is fixed to this clasp,while the other end engagesthe buckle O.

This buckle G is constructed as follows: 0 is a loop, of metal, preferably wire, with its free ends united by a boxing c. c is another wire formed into a loop at its heel, with each of its arms curled around the arms of the loop 0 and terminatingin two sharpened prongs 0 To thread the strap or tape through the buckle, its free end is first passed through the loop 0, thence down around the loop 0 thence again back through the loop 0, as shown in the drawings.

The operation of this device is as follows: The tape having been threaded into the buckle, the loop 0 is drawn downward into the position shown in Fig. 2. The buckle is then brought against the corset, with the boxing e on the outside of the corset. The

, prongs e are then passed through the fabric and brought out again in front, and are then slipped up into the boxing, as shown in Fig. 1. It maybe thus pushed up with the fingers, or it will be thus forced up by simply pulling downward on the strap. Whenever it is desirable to lengthen out the strap, it is accomplished by grasping the strap near the buckle and either lifting it in an upward direction or in a direction outward from the corset, as shown in Fig. 4; and whenever it is desirable to shorten the strap it is accomplished by simply pulling directly downward on its free end, as shown in Fig. 3.

The device is perfectly stable in any position of adjustment, since any downward strain on the portion of the strap connecting the buckle to the clasp binds the strap firmly at the loop of the buckle.

E represents an elastic section in the strap E.

I would have it understood that instead of making the parts of the buckle of wire they may be made of other metal in any equivalent form; so, also,'that the elastic section E may or may not be employed; and the buckle may be employed with any other clasp or fastening at the stocking. So, also, the device is not limited in its use as a stocking-supporter, but is equally applicable for any other kind of garmentsupporter, or as a suspenderbuckle.

WVhat I claim is- A supporter consisting of a clasp for engaging the article to be supported, a suspending-strap leading therefrom, and a buckle In testimony whereof I sign this speeifieaconsisting of the loop a, carrying shield 0' tion in the presence of two \vltnesses. and loop 0 having prongs 0 arranged with regard to each other, so that the strap engag' LLTIb D011 ing the bottoms of the two will draw the I Witnesses: shield down over the prongs, substantially as W. H. UI-IAMBERLIN,

described. 0. J. SHIPLEY. 

